Posts Tagged teen parenthood

By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Compiled by Alexandra and Lori. 

Amazing! We just passed 15K. You helped us get halfway to our funding goal on the third day of our Kickstarter campaign.

A study on parsing White Supremacy and political thought and beliefs.

Stay classy Texas antis.

“Catch An Illegal” protest at UT Austin totally backfired.

Shame from all angles: why doesn’t anyone seem to respect teen parents?

White-washing queer fashion history.

Black man repeatedly arrested and jailed for “trespassing” at his workplace.

New Belabored podcast at Dissent.

Could teller organizing help halt bank abuses?

Mychal, at the Nation: “It’s not just a matter of changing attitudes about skin color. We have to be willing ...

Compiled by Alexandra and Lori. 

Amazing! We just passed 15K. You helped us get halfway to our funding goal on the third day of our Kickstarter campaign.

A study on parsing White Supremacy and ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 11 years ago

Guest post: The freedom not to choose birth control

This is a guest post by Gloria Malone. Gloria is a freelance writer, blogger, and teen and young parent advocate based in NYC. You can find her on Twitter and on her personal blog, teenmomnyc.com.

I was 15 years old when I had my daughter. A week after having her I went to my post birth appointment and was told by the doctor that she had already scheduled an insertion appointment for a five year hormonal Mirena IUD all I had to do was say yes and this “super convenient, hassle free, and no pill” form of birth control would be mine. My teenage self agreed and a few days later I had my IUD. However, the ...

This is a guest post by Gloria Malone. Gloria is a freelance writer, blogger, and teen and young parent advocate based in NYC. You can find her on Twitter and on her personal blog,

By Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Good Indian girls, race, and sexuality.

Surprising! Black professionals are under-represented in company leadership.

Some awesome bad advice.

It costs $3,000 a month to be a queer parent in New York State.

Pay it forward to this campaign to create a shelter access guidebook for Trans Women in Quebec.

Some great pushback to the Candies’ Foundation ads that Veronica wrote about last week.

Mychal Smith points out that not every black kid in American dreams of becoming a rapper or baller, some just want the schools to stay open.

Good Indian girls, race, and sexuality.

Surprising! Black professionals are under-represented in company leadership.

Some awesome bad advice.

It costs $3,000 a month to be a queer parent in New York State.

Pay ...